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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Little Lov'n Monday: Leave A Link

Little Lov'n Mondayis a day we celebrate the work of fellow bloggers. Between now and Wednesday, post a link to an article, contest, interview, poem- anything you think deserves a little lov'n. Leave a link and be entered in LLM Giveaway. Deadline is May 15. Winner announced every Saturday. Congratulations to Dorla, winner (5/08)! Check her out at Dorla's Poetry and Prose. Dorla is a poet, feminist, all around creative force! Show her some love.

Commit to visiting 5 blogs and leaving comments. If you do that, let us know. You might not care about winning a book, but I'm thinking you're a cool person who cares. Tell us that you shared some love. Thanks. Winner may choose a prize from the list or any previously offered book if it is available:Water for Elephants by Sara GruenA Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty SmithHush by Jacqueline Woodson (YA)Blue Hour Poems by Carolyn ForcheStolen Lives by Malika Oufkir

Earn 1entry for leaving a link to a post you think we should check out. Earn extra entries:+5 for saying you visited folks and shared some love+3 for posting LLM icon/link in your sidebar+2 for blogging about LLMLeave a separate comment for each entry.

Thom, I hear you. There are some posts that get overlooked simply because of when we publish them. Putting it up and make it a regular LLM link. Nothing wrong with promoting the same kind of link weekly. Thanks.

Geoffrey, I can feel the love. Thank you so much for coming back here.

This week I don't have a link to a particular post, but to an entire blog.

Ashley of Books Make Great Lovers is only 15, yet she is so well aware of the issues the world faces. I think she deserves much respect for the work she has done on her blog for the last two months, spotlighting Child Abuse Month and Teen Sex Awareness. In addition to this, she produces her own YA newsletter.

She is a great young lady, whose hard work sometimes goes unnoticed in this huge sea of bloggers, but she truly is a gem!

I really enjoyed Kim's review of The Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down, at Sophisticated Dorkiness. This nonfiction book is a remarkable look at the Hmong culture and the Western medical community in California, and has stuck with me ever since I read it years ago. Kim gave it her very first A+ Perfect Score!

So excited to win last week! Definitely a pleasant surprise over the weekend.

In the spirit of Shalonda I'd like to give some love to a new blog started by an Austin-area poet. So you're not forced to wade through these entire blogs to get a sense of it, here is a post I find particularly notable:

I love this idea but I'm a bit confused. Are we supposed to link to one of our own posts or to someone else's? (I'd assumed someone else's but I've noticed that some folk link to their own.) I'm off to visit some of the blogs mentioned above!

I do go around blogs regularly and comment, but only to posts that I can relate to, so I can make personal comments. I'm reluctant to leave generic comments, because I'm not sure if they do much. I still appreciate it when people do on mine, because that's an effort in itself. Anyway, I have shared some love and I'll check out the links soon!

I was inspired by Li'l Lovin Monday to write a post celebrating a few of the achievements and great posts by some of my favorite blogs (including this one). I'm on my way now to visit and comment on a few others.

The gardening article by Jeanette Winterson is just beautiful! I'm trying my hand at gardening for the first time this year and it has given me a much needed boost of encouragement. (I didn't see a place to leave comments, so I'm sharing my thoughts here...)

Daily Quote

"All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet." ~Wangari Maathai